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that the greatest events start human reason. (Blake, Descriptive
with weak mental fluctuations Catalogue, 41, E543)
and gradually reveal their own However, “As Schiller put it
greatness. Nevertheless, most in his Aesthetic Letters: In the
people are unable to distinguish eyes of a Reason which knows
these two issues from each no limits, the Direction is at
other. Imagination is an once the Destination, and the
extraordinary issue which is Way is completed from the
created by the divine power moment it is trodden. (Ref:
and originated from the Abrams, 1973: 216) This reason
metaphysical sea and again that knows no limitation is the
unites with it. universal reason.
Thus, to be in union with
the divinity is only possible if Universal Reason and Ideal Man
one adheres to imagination and Universal reason is comparable
skips rationality. Blake believes with the notion of Ideal man in
that “Energy is the only life Islamic mysticism. It is believed
and from the Body and Reason that the Ideal man is final
is the bound or outward cause of creation. The Ideal
circumference of Energy. Energy man (who is represented as
is Eternal Delight”. (Blake, Adam in the Holy Quran) is
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, E 34) even higher than the angels as
On the other hand, he according to the Holy Quran
contends that reason is ugly they prostrated.
and “restrainer”. He states that And when We said to
“The Ugly man represents the the angels, ‘Prostrate
before Adam,’ they
prostrated, but not Iblis:
